Patent to Seneca Smith

SMITH

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 10/10/2007 at 14:52:09

PATENT
United States of America to Seneca Smith.
Dated October 8, 1847.
Transfers the NW fr1/4 of Section 19, Township 84 North, Range 3 East of the Fifth Principal Meridian from the United States of America to Seneca Smith. (This is the northeast section of Maquoketa, approximately north of Platt Street and east of Main Street).
The Patent is a document of conveyance from the government similar to a deed, which is a private conveyance. This patent is recorded in Book 72, Page 76, Office of the Recoder of Jackson County, Iowa.